Mourning quotations

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◆ Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

- Roland Barthes99

◆ Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.

- Carrie Jones99

◆ When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.

- Pat Schweibert99

◆ Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.

- a headstone in Ireland99

◆ In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

- Toni Morrison99

◆ And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief;

- William Cullen Bryant99

◆ Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.

- Brian Ruckley99

◆ We all live with our losses. We don't want to, but we can

- Carrie Jones99

◆ At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

- Benjamin J. Carey99

◆ Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what I'm supposed to do right now. Right now I can't sleep. It's right now that I can't eat. Right now I still hear his voice and sense his presence even though I know he's not here. Right now all I seem to do is cry. I know all about time and wounds healing, but even if I had all the time in the world, I still don't know what to do with all this hurt right now.

- Nina Guilbeau99

◆ We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.

- C.S. Lewis99

◆ The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.

- Kristina McMorris99

◆ I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

- John Green99

◆ It's odd, isn't it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it's a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light candles and tell you that you're not alone.

- Kristina McMorris99